Junior Lawyer, Financial Services in London

Most real estate finance lawyers only ever do half the deal. You either report on title and pass the file to banking, or you draft the facility and take the property position on trust from someone else's certificate. A top 50 UK firm, London office, real estate finance practice acting for developers, investors, banks and debt funds on domestic and cross-border transactions. Development finance for an 80-bed care home, acting for a debt fund. Development finance for a central London mixed-use scheme, acting for the bank. Refinancing of a hotel portfolio spanning European and US assets, acting for the sponsor. The finance elements of an overseas sponsor's acquisition of a four-asset UK business park portfolio. A private investor's acquisition of four student accommodation sites. Hotels, student accommodation, care homes, business parks, mixed-use development. Why the banking side matters here This is not a title reporting seat with a banking label on it. You will draft and negotiate facility agreements and security documents as well as run the property due diligence and the reporting. The partner acts for sponsors and for lenders, so the person doing this job needs to hold the property position and the document position in the same conversation rather than handing one of them across a wall. Top 50 by UK revenue, and named Law Firm of the Year in three consecutive years at national legal awards. I will give you the promotion route, the timeline and who has come through it recently when we speak, because that conversation is more useful than a line in an advert. This is a national full-service firm, not a City finance boutique. If your current firm's name opens doors in a lender's credit committee on its own, you will notice the difference in the first month. What you get instead is a partner-led practice where the work spans asset classes and both sides of the transaction, and where nobody is going to tell you the facility agreement is someone else's document. You are a qualified England and Wales solicitor doing real estate finance now. You have drafted facility agreements, debentures and legal charges, not just reviewed them. You have run property due diligence and reported to lenders, whether on CLLS certificates or a firm's standard form. You would rather have five asset classes and two sides of the table than one specialism and one client type. Seb - Consul Talent